infectiology
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms, from infection + -ology; being ISV, the word is cognate with French infectiologie, but in English the usual name of the medical specialty is infectious disease or infectious diseases.
Noun
infectiology (uncountable)
- The study of infection
- 2015 September 24, “Individual Monitoring of Immune Response in Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar following Experimental Infection with Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus (ISAV)”, in PLOS ONE, :
- We describe here a novel approach to infectiology for salmonid fish where blood samples are collected repeatedly in a small group of PIT-tagged animals.
Derived terms
- infectiologic / infectologic
- infectiological / infectological
- infectiologist / infectologist
Related terms
- infectious disease / infectious diseases (which is the standard collocation naming the medical specialty in English)
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